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Barry Ryerson

@barryryerson.bsky.social

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Writer. Audio nerd. Ninja. Cat dad. He/him. Pan 🌈 Books: 📖 The Child of Fire and Earth (MG fantasy) 📖 The Magic Circle (YA/NA scifi fantasy) 📘 Origins (scifi short stories) Website: www.barryryerson.com Quick link to books: www.linktr.ee/bryerson

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Barry Ryerson @barryryerson.bsky.social · Aug 2

Decades after nuclear war, magic returns.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "The pacing was spot-on, and the last chapters—Wow!"

"I’d highly recommend this one for anyone craving a fun, action packed adventure that mixes science and magic in a way that absolutely sucks you in."

Link: relinks.me/B09XJBQMRK

#scifi 💙📚

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Barry Ryerson @barryryerson.bsky.social · 8h

Nice to see someone else pointing out that copyright isn't just for Christmas.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It’s Sam Altman: the man who stole the rights from copyright. If he’s the future, can we go backwards? | Marina Hyde

His AI video generator Sora 2 has been reviled for pinching the work of others. One giant leap for Sam: for everyone else, not so much, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

www.theguardian.com

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Barry Ryerson @barryryerson.bsky.social · 19h

I had a post before now get out of containment over on Xitter, and the constant notifications (not to mention trolls that surfaced) put me off social media for over a week. It was just too much.

Barry Ryerson @barryryerson.bsky.social · 1d

Yevgeny is a spy with a difference.

Yes, there's gadgets and guns. But he also has magical powers that help him recruit others with similar gifts.

But what happens when he falls in love with his mark?

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "...mixes science and magic in a way that absolutely sucks you in."

relinks.me/B09XJBQMRK

Blond young man wearing a black leather jacket stands on a lawn outside a white church. He frowns towards the camera, deciding if you are friend or foe.

Book cover for The Magic Circle, a dystopian scifi fantasy suitable for 15+. A gold, circular emblem rests over a dark and smoky cityscape.

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Barry Ryerson @barryryerson.bsky.social · 1d

Just comfort-watched Johnny English 3 and damn but it feels so relevant today.

Particularly the part where the villain is an AI-using Silicon Valley nerd wanting to steal everyone's data and coerce other countries to give him control over them.

a man in armor is holding a tablet that says nokia on it

ALT: a man in armor is holding a tablet that says nokia on it

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Picking up a bunch of new followers coz of that viral post. 👋

If you think the wording of that one post was clever and succinct you should check out my books, where I sneak in political commentary in oh so many smart and funny ways. 😁

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · Nov 9

Hi New Followers 👋

You've made a wise choice. 👍

As well as posting silliness and hope for a better world I also write books (full of silliness and hope for a better world). Start with this free book of shorts written to introduce you to the #steampunk world of Hammersmyth.

mybook.to/hammersmyth2

Book Cover for The Hammersmith Tales (spelt with a y instead of an i). A beige background with shadowy images of cogs and clock faces. In the bottom right corner sits a grey cat wearing brass goggles and a green scarf. H elooks out at us with a lopsided grin. His tail is segmented with metal joints and his eyes have mechanical irises. The book's title is across the top in red and gold. Written in white below it says "A collection of steampunk shorts from the author of", then in yellow/gold "Dexter & Sinister Detecting Agents." Below that is the author's name in white, Keith W Dickinson.

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Barry Ryerson @barryryerson.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, if they've got the money to spare to get these "specialist advisors" into GP surgeries, why not spend it on, you know, more GPs to help people get better quicker?

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Alan K. Dell @alankdell.bsky.social · 2d

Just a semi-regular reminder that all of my books are available on Kobo, Apple, Google Play, library services like Libby, and free to read on Kobo+

And for UK residents, signed paperbacks/merch available on my website.

Plus a free short story for newsletter subscribers. All links in bio

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Five tablet mock-ups of the augment saga books in a group (with SFINCS finalist badge attached to The Re-Emergence) with the series title above, and five stars plus a review quote below which reads: "I rarely find as successful a blend of science, intrigue, and mystery as I have with this series."

The God Sun book cover tablet mockup in the middle on a background with a red dwarf star with a review quote underneath which reads: “[The God Sun] had that creeping discomfort I’ve come to expect from space sci-fi stories that lean towards the dark side. I was hooked!”

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Barry Ryerson @barryryerson.bsky.social · 2d

And then asking them for £300 for an Uber

Barry Ryerson @barryryerson.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you. It sounded nice at first (like a small book club wanted me to talk or something) but swiftly went to payment and me writing a 2 page document for them!

Didn't realise it was a new scam, though it definitely smelt like an old one in new clothes.

Barry Ryerson @barryryerson.bsky.social · 2d

It's a little known fact that teenage boys will wait until the last possible second to inform you that they now have no clean trousers for school tomorrow because they messed them up earlier and didn't bother to tell you.

Barry Ryerson @barryryerson.bsky.social · 2d

Mate, it's giving more red flags than a matador party that's just gatecrashed a flag factory that specialises in red flags.

My particularly favourite part is how they haven't even named the book properly, yet their readers are interested and excited to read it.

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Barry Ryerson @barryryerson.bsky.social · 2d

Has anyone come across Better Read Than Dead Bookclub in Florida?

I've had a message from them, asking me to pay £300 for them to talk about and promote my short stories (which I'm not going to do as that's ludicrous).

#WritingCommunity

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Barry Ryerson @barryryerson.bsky.social · 2d

It's such a great metaphor for their party: ideas that are pushed through without even the simplest of checks on whether it works.

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David M. Bennett MD (FAAOS, FPOSNA, DABOS) @davembmd.bsky.social · 2d

This is the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time. @aptshadow.bsky.social @abraham.bsky.social

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Natalie Kelda @nataliekelda.bsky.social · 2d

Had another wonderful review for Reflections of Lilje Damselfly 💙

Threads post screenshot, @majaspang
Just finished this lovely story by @nataliekelda 🩵
If you need to read something cozy and romantic, but also melancholic, go grab this book. It's about a chronically ill water nymph that falls in love with a human woman and must face a tough decision about her own life.
Especially recommend if you struggle with a chronic illness and would like to see it reflected in a fantasy(ish) setting.

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Barry Ryerson @barryryerson.bsky.social · 2d

I find, with my ME, that I've either got the immune system of a bull and won't get ill at all, or of a diseased lettuce and will get horribly ill from a slight cold (once spent an entire week in bed in a fevered delirium from a minor tummy bug).

But there's no way of knowing which one I am today.

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Barry Ryerson @barryryerson.bsky.social · 2d

It scared the absolute bejeesus out of me, but it's stuck with me for years.

Such a great film.

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Barry Ryerson @barryryerson.bsky.social · 3d

I love computer games, and this was the console that started it off for me: The G7000.

If it looks ancient, that's because it was (and so am I!).

What started it off for you?

#videogames #computergames

Barry Ryerson @barryryerson.bsky.social · 3d

Decades after nuclear war, magic returns.

Whilst some use it for art or subterfuge, others will stop at nothing to have that power for themselves.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "The pacing was spot-on, and the last chapters—Wow!"

"a fun, action-packed adventure that mixes science and magic"

🔗 relinks.me/B09XJBQMRK

❤️📚

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Barry Ryerson @barryryerson.bsky.social · 3d

FWIW, it sounds like you did an amazing thing.

And all you can do now is hope that it's left enough of a niggle of doubt in her mind that she'll keep exploring that in her own time.

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Barry Ryerson @barryryerson.bsky.social · 3d

Especially with things like linktree and universal links, there's no excuse not to.

VivisectiAnne @vivianne900.bsky.social · 4d

I am once again begging authors to let me buy their books. Please put your itch/amazon links in your pinned post or on your bio. I am very very lazy and will only search for a book for 10 seconds before I get distracted.

Barry Ryerson @barryryerson.bsky.social · 3d

I first watched that on VHS having heard nothing about it. I assumed it was just an ordinary scifi.

So, I watched it, alone, with the lights out. Turned out to be the absolute best way to watch it.

Such a great film.

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Barry Ryerson @barryryerson.bsky.social · 3d

Er, yes and yes.

But, annoyingly, since getting ME I've become intolerant to caffeine and I've yet to find a decaf version of it anywhere.

(I discovered it had caffeine in it by drinking some without knowing and watching my heart rate skyrocket.)

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 3d

New scam alert: contact via the website saying I’ve picked up a ‘backlink’ from a scam site and do I want them to point it out to me (presumably by dodgy link.) ignored the first but have now had several identical so definitely a phisher.

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